Posted on 07/03/2008 11:10:08 AM PDT by syntacticus
Ayers was a terrorist and IMO still is a terrorist with his comments in the thread posted that he said “I don’t want to discount the possibility” regarding the question “would he do it all again ?”.........Ayers is by his own definition what he is.
A domestic enemy of these United States. As is anyone who provides aid and comfort too him and his agenda. IMHO that would be ..............Obama ?
Doom on the POS !
While John McCain was getting the crap kicked out of him every day in an NVA prison camp, Obama was on a beach in Hawaii smoking pot and snorting cocaine.
He admitted as much in his book.
The visuals in a 30 second spot would be devastating.
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http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/04/18/how_obama_and_the_radical_became_news/
The sudden national focus on the connection between the Democratic presidential hopeful and a Vietnam-era radical named William Ayers - a onetime fugitive from justice who told The New York Times, "I don't regret setting bombs" - set the political world abuzz. The news that Obama held a campaign event at Ayers's home in 1995, and served with Ayers on a Chicago community board, was either damning or innocuous, a worthy disclosure or a sure sign of the decline of political journalism.
But the Obama-Ayers story itself is a case study in the ways that news jumps between blogs and traditional media, the lingering power of network news, and the persistence of Internet conspiracy theories. In fact, it was hard yesterday to tell which got more scrutiny: the link between Obama and Ayers, or the link between ABC's George Stephanopoulos and Sean Hannity of Fox News.
Stephanopoulos was the one to ask Obama about Ayers during Wednesday night's debate, amid a string of challenging questions addressed to both candidates. He asked Obama about his links to Ayers, a former member of the domestic terrorist group the Weather Underground. "Can you explain that relationship to voters and explain to Democrats why it won't be a problem?" Stephanopoulos asked.
Obama replied that Ayers was a neighbor and acquaintance. "The notion that . . . me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8 years old, somehow reflects on me and my values doesn't make much sense," he said.
But Hillary Clinton, Obama's rival in the tight Democratic race, jumped on the issue - and brought up the fact that Ayers's comments about not regretting his 1970s bombings happened to appear in The New York Times on Sept. 11, 2001. Obama shot back that Clinton's husband had pardoned or commuted the sentences of two other members of the Weather Underground.
The Socialist Democrats are tripping all over their own BS !
If he did, I didn't catch it. It may have been a "round table" topic, but there's a difference between reporting on a "controversy", and actually attempting to dig up the information that will either confirm or refute something that's been alleged or hinted at. On the one hand, how hard could it be to trick, cajole or otherwise obtain all the relevant facts from those in and around Chicago politics. On the other hand, we are talking about Chicago politics, meaning that it could be hazardous to the life and/or limb of anyone nosing around about Obama's connections to radicals, mobsters and terrorists.
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